Packing strip for shipping materials



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WILLIAM B. ALCORN, OF' DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

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Application filed June 6, 1924. Serial No. 718,202.

This invention relates to packing articles for shipment and particularly relates to a packing strip for insertion between articles to be shipped.

It is an object of the invention to provide a simple and inexpensive packing for use in shipping articles of a more or less frangible nature, such as brick,,tile or the like, and

which may be produced from flexible sheet brick for shipment in a freight car or other carrier. v

These and various other objects are attained by the construction hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein,

Fig. 1 is a perspective viewof the improved packing strip. a

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan view showing the improved strip as applied to a shipment of brick in a freight car.

Fig. 3 is a view of the same in sectional elevation.

In these views the reference character A designates a freight car and B a quantity of brick packed in said car in superposed tiers for shipment.

The improved packing strip shown applied to said shipment comprises a length of some fibrous material such, for example, as builders paper, said strip having its longitudinal margins oppositely bent at rightangles to the body of the strip as indicated at D and E respectively. Preferably said strip is reinforced at intervals between its ends by wire members F extending transversely of the strip and threaded through openings therein so as to extend alternately upon opposite sides of said strip. Said reinforcements conform to the approximate Z- shape of the strip C.

The height of the strip G, that is to say the distance between its flanges D and E, conform to the width of the bricks B, or

7 other articles, to be packedso that said strips may be extended between the adjoining margins D and E overlapping the upper and lower faces of such bricks so as to provide a packing between said tiers and the overlying and underlying tiers.

Thus the described packing strip prevents direct contact between the bricks of adjoining rows of a tier, and also prevents direct contact of each tier of bricks with the underlying, supporting tier. Owing to the cushioning nature of the materialforming said strips, the latter tend to absorb such shocks and ars as may be transmitted, during shipment to the bricks (or the like) from the carrier for the same.

A packing of the described character isadapted to be very quickly applied to bricks or the like as they are being loaded for shipment, and will exercise an important effect in protecting such shipments from breakage or lesser damage.

It is to be understood that the described strip may be formed of any sheet material having the necessary resiliency to adapt it for cushioning purposes.

The reinforcements F serve primarily to hold the margins D and E in their proper transverse relation to the main body of the a packing strip.

What I claim is:

A spacer for use in stacking bricks, com prising a strip of sheet material adapted to be vertically disposed between adjacent rows of bricks, said strip having its upper and lower edge portions oppositely bent at substantially right angles to the body of the sheet to form a packing between said rows of bricks and super-posed rows, and further comprising metal reinforcing members extending upon said sheetbetween their bent edges maintaining the angular relation of said edge portions to the body of the strip.

In testimony where'ofI signthis specification.

, WILLIAM B. ALGORN. 

